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hamsterisch 's review for:
The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters
by Gay Talese
- In reading through old periodicals … it seemed that most of the news printed on the front pages was historically and socially less revealing of the time than what was published in the classified and the display advertising spread through the middle and back pages. The advertising offered detailed sketches and photographs showing the then-current fashion in clothing, the body styles of cars, where rental apartments were obtainable and at what cost, what jobs were available to the white-collar and the laboring classes; while the front pages were largely concerned with the words and deeds of many seemingly important people who were no longer important.
- .. I was mesmerized by New York, and intensely curious about the things that relatively few people cared about (like the nocturnal dusting habits of the city’s skyscraper charwomen, and what the doormen in apartment houses knew about the tenants’ marital lives, and, of course, the dietary needs of freelance cats).
- .. I was mesmerized by New York, and intensely curious about the things that relatively few people cared about (like the nocturnal dusting habits of the city’s skyscraper charwomen, and what the doormen in apartment houses knew about the tenants’ marital lives, and, of course, the dietary needs of freelance cats).